by Gillian Chan

Sixteen-year-old Ben Larsson is furious at his dad. Lars, a pony-tailed folklorist with a booming voice and an anxious desire to please, has unexpectedly reappeared in Ben’s life, only to drag the sullen, motherless teen to England for a “clean start.” Ben treats his prodigal father with bouts of foul language and belligerent silence. But he’s about to discover that his problems at home are not so very important–compared with helping an eight-foot, leaf-garbed tree man save fairyland from a renegade prince.